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Replication files for the JLEO article: "Legal Research As A Collective Enterprise: An Examination of Data Availability in Empirical Legal Scholarship"

By Abigail A. Matthews  - University at Buffalo, SUNY - aamatthe@buffalo.edu 
	and 
Jason Rantanen - University of Iowa Law School - jason-rantanen@uiowa.edu
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* Codebooks
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Codebook_variables.pdf
	Describes variables and how they are coded/created.
	
Codebook_usedforRAs.pdf
	This is the annotated codebook provided to research assistants, used to gather all original data in article. 

	
* Analysis Datasets	
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ELS-SS_data.dta
	This is the main dataset, used for figure 1 and tables 1 and 2.
	
full_authors_list.dta
	This dataset is used for table 3.

author_article_unitofA.dta
	This dataset is used for table 4. 

	Computing Environment: Operating System macOS Monterey Version 12.6.7
	Analysis performed in Stata 17 MP


* Do file for models and figures 
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ELS Analysis.do
	Stata do file contains the code to produce all the tables and figures in the analysis and in the appendix. 


